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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8783665" data-attributes="member: 4937">Because the places you visit are mostly places where people are disgruntled and unhappy.  In Star Wars, that occurs in two locations - newly settled planets without the money and infrastructure to terraform and long settled planets where overcrowding has led to a large impoverished underclass without property.  The vast majority of the Republic/Empire lives in extreme comfort except when war or disaster happens, but people who live in extreme comfort are generally unwilling to risk the status quo.  Which is part of the reason the people who live in the Outer Rim are so unhappy, because they know how good it can be for the inner and mid rim planets that have resources and good government that ensures freedom and low levels of corruption, and they are like, "Why can't the Galactic government do more to transfer wealth to the colony worlds, or at the least deal with the corrupt regulations, corrupt business practices, corrupt governments, crime, slavery, and other problems that keep the pace of development in the rim slow?"  Palpatine is initially reasonably well received by a lot of people because he promises to clean up the corruption, establish fair and uniform trade regulations, and end the lawlessness that besets the outer rim.  Trouble is, Palpatine had absolutely no intention of delivering on those promises.  The Moffs were even worse than the Senators, and unlike the Senators had no real limits on their power.  Instead of outlawing slavery as expected, and has the Republic officially had done, Palpatine signed deals with the major slave traders and started exporting whole populations for use as cheap laborers even in older more settled parts of the galaxy.  The irony is that if Palpatine hadn't been such a complete jerk, he probably could have hung on to power indefinitely.  He didn't even need to be perfect.  All he had to do was not be worse than the already existing terrible situation.</blockquote>

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